The Forum UI is overwhelming/noisy/splattered which makes it hard to read.
Ignoring that you are clicking all over the screen to do things, there’s some ambiguity between comments and answers (and 2 different places to click to give answers?). Upvotes on topic vs comments vs answers could cause some diluting of bug metrics.
Pink: Names and times are splattered into the comment messages, while split on topics. Could right or left justify to keep the names out of the way of reading the comments. These are competing for attention from the content.
Green: The counts are inaccurate and not reflecting the actual topic activity. You have 1/2 (for the topic/reply), but it ignores the comments.
Orange: Click-things are all over.
Content you actually want to be able to speed-read (original dark). Notice that this text is small and does not stand out at all from the page interface elements. Those line-separators between comments/answers/UI distract. They aren’t helping. Obviously, the fix is NOT to just dark-or-light the text background or change its color. The blocks are all over the place in shape/size, and even the “start of the information paragraph” is in a sweeping arc, not book-style straight.